I have found something very exciting – Butterfly Pea Flower Tea – a tea that changes colour. I first came across it at a street market a few month’s ago – there was a herbal tea stand there and so, in…Read more

My original plan when I heard that Men’s Health meals, an offshoot of the magazine into the ready meal industry was to get a guest blog from The Boyfriend. I figured he could nom his way through a couple and…Read more

‘You’re eating a slab of moss,’ said The Boyfriend when he came up to my office the other day. ‘Why are you eating moss?’ Actually, I was eating a slab of seaweed and very tasty it was too. The item…Read more

Blast. In my excitement to write about Snackfish I missed the chance to scoop one of the national papers. You see before I went haddock tasting on Monday lunchtime, I had a meeting with a nice man in a pub….Read more

I’ll be honest, the products I feature on this blog are not chosen using a careful algorithm. They usually appear for one of three reasons. 1) They are genuinely really innovative 2) They intrigue me (and usually allow me to…Read more

I spent yesterday eating my way around the Natural and Organic Products Europe Show at London’s Olympia. I wasn’t sure if I was going to go, but then I was scanning the list of exhibitors and I saw the words…Read more

I have an issue with fruit being mixed with other food – apricots in curry (no, should never happen), pineapple on pizza (why? why?) and as for putting pineapple on burgers – I’m actually shuddering. The concept therefore of one…Read more

Yesterday I went did one of my favourite things, wandered around the health food mecca that is Wholefoods. Determined not to leave without something to play with, I wandered round aisles of processed food gussied up to look virtuous and…Read more

If you’re on a low carb diet and miss noodles and pasta, or are just watching the calories and so are cutting back on carby portions, behold shirataki noodles your new best friend. Now US readers might be well aware…Read more

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My name is Helen. And what makes me happy is discovering the newest, strangest or most fun products, studies and ideas in the worlds of diet, fitness and health. I do this all day every day - and some of them make me go 'oooh' ...
* Oooh - I just learned something
* Oooh - that's bonkers
* Oooh - that's fun/innovative/fantastic.
Those are the things you'll find on this blog.